Species: Spinus pinus

Pine Siskin

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Birds

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Terrestrial vertebrates: birds

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Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Craniata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Fringillidae

Genus

Spinus

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Classification

Other Global Common Names

Jilguero Pinero - tarin des pins

Informal Taxonomy

Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds

Formal Taxonomy

Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Fringillidae - Spinus - belong to different clades.

Ecology and Life History

Migration

true - true - true - Pine siskins may wander irregularly during winter.

Non-migrant

true

Locally Migrant

true

Food Comments

This species forages in trees and on the ground for seeds (e.g., of alder, birches, pines, maples, thistles) and insects. It also eats flower buds of elms, and drinks nectar from eucalyptus blossoms and sap from sapsucker holes (Terres 1980).

Reproduction Comments

Clutch size is 3-4, sometimes 5. Incubation, by female, lasts 13 days (Terres 1980). Both parents tend young, which leave nest 15 days after hatching. Sometimes individual females produce 2 broods/year. Pine siskins frequently nest in loose colonies.

Ecology Comments

Pine siskins are gregarious in fall and winter and often travel in flocks of typically 50-200. Occasionally a few siskins travel in flocks with goldfinches and redpolls during winter (Terres 1980).

Length

Weight

Conservation Status

NatureServe Global Status Rank

Global Status Last Reviewed

1996-12-04

Global Status Last Changed

1996-12-04

Other Status

LC - Least concern

Distribution

Conservation Status Map

Global Range

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Nesting range extends from central and south-coastal Alaska east across Canada to Labrador, and south to northern Baja California, southern Mexico and Guatemala, western Texas, Great Lakes region, and northern New England, and sporatically southward to the central Great Plains region and southern Appalachian Mountains region (Dawson 1997, AOU 1998).<br><br>Winter range extends from the breeding range (except far northern noncoastal part) south to southern Mexico and Guatemala, Gulf coast of the United States, and northern Florida (Dawson 1997, AOU 1998).

Global Range Code

Global Range Description

>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)

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